Albert Camus' existentialist masterpiece now in a wonderful new Clothbound Classics edition
In The Outsider his classic existentialist novel Camus explores the alienation of an
individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault his anti-hero will not lie. When
his mother dies he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others.
And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers his lack of
remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and the law. Yet he is as much a victim as a
criminal.
